archil

How To Use archil In A Sentence

• He was short for a Tran, almost Ethan's size, and wore a strange coat of archil and argent done in diamond patterns, the diamond shapes varying in size. Mission to Moulokin
• I have also ventured to invent a metre for that technically known as the Fourth Archilochian, the "Solvitur acris hiems," by combining the fourteen-syllable with the ten-syllable iambic in an alternately rhyming stanza. The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace
• Soluble in water and alcohol, this colouring principle yields by precipitation with chloride of calcium a compound known as 'Solid French Purple', a pigment more stable than the archil colours generally, but all too fugitive for the palette. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
• That noble songstress, Vittoria Archilei, known as "Euterpe" among her For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music
• A young girl holding a myrtle branch in Archilochus survives in Odysseus Elytis - Nobel Lecture
• Then there's the other kind of anthologist, the Disch kind, the weirdo, the iconoclast, the demented hedgehog to steal Archilochus of Paros's analogy. Film Structure
• If a wine colored with archil and one colored with cudbear are treated treated according to Romei's method, the former gives, with basic lead acetate, a blue, and the latter a fine violet precipitate. Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883
• It is enough to name Archilochus, whom Mahaffy terms the Swift of Greek Literature, Simonides of Amorgos (circ. English Satires
• If the red color is due to magenta, it is destroyed by both these reagents, while hydrocholoric acid does not decolorize the solutions of archil and cudbear, and ammonia turns their red color to a purple violet. Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883
• Take a little pinch of archil, and put some boiling-hot water upon it, add to it a very little lump of pear-lash. Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets